20th Century
The White Feather Killer (A Silas Quinn Mystery)
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Eighteen-year-old Eve Cardew is found dead, a white feather on the ground near her body, another in her mouth. Hours before, she and ...Read Review
The Night Diary
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India/Pakistan, 1947. For her twelfth birthday, Nisha receives a diary. She decides to write in it every night, summarizing her day for her ...Read Review
The Nickel Boys
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The incomparable Colson Whitehead follows his Pulitzer-Prize-winning The Underground Railroad with a tale that is much different and yet, sadly, much the same. ...Read Review
How We Disappeared
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Straddling two timelines and told from the perspective of two narrators, How We Disappeared is an evocative glimpse into Japanese-occupied Singapore during World ...Read Review
The Ventriloquists: A Novel
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World War II was fought on many fronts. One of the most important battles concerned the Germans’ attempt, in spite of their campaign ...Read Review
Delayed Rays of a Star: A Novel
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Delayed Rays of a Star features three women—the actresses Marlene Dietrich and Anna May Wong, and the filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl—who were ...Read Review
Run Cold (Edna Ferber Mysteries)
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In the ninth and final volume in Ifkovic’s Edna Ferber mysteries, we join the acerbic writer in late 1950s Fairbanks, Alaska, where ...Read Review
The Snow Gypsy
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We meet Lola in 1938 toward the end of the Spanish Civil War in the Alpujarra region of Andalusia, Spain. Lola is a part ...Read Review
Ever Faithful: A Vintage National Parks Novel
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It’s 1933 in Yellowstone National Park, and we follow Elsie Brookes, who is saving up for college to become a teacher, and Nate ...Read Review
The World That We Knew
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Magical realism combines with fairy tale in this story of young adults facing death and torture at the hands of the Nazis during ...Read Review